Planning application
Land At Yew Tree Farm Higgins Lane Burscough Lancashire
Works: New dwelling
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Full planning application for a residential development and the provision of associated access and infrastructure works including roads, drainage infrastructure, car parking, public open space, landscaping and other associated works.
As published by the council, reference 2025/0619/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/0619/FUL
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Registered
- Received
- 15 Jul 2025
- Validated
- 13 Oct 2025
- Ward
- Burscough Town Ward
- Decision by
- Committee
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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15 Jul 2025
Received by Sefton
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13 Oct 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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21 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 8 December 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Sefton took a median of 62 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Lichfields Agent, registered in Newbury
Active · incorporated 2006 · Newbury
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
156 documents on file for this application
- Strategic planning
- Llfa
- Leisure services
- Environmental statement addendum
- Environmental statement: non-technical summary
- Es addendum - appendix 1 & 2
- Updated layout
- Sport england
- Tree officer w/d objection
- Lha response
- Lha response
- Lha response
- Lha response
- Amended site layout
- Strategic planning response
- Revised site layout plans
- Arb method statement
- Meas
- Habitat regulations assessment
- Letter in response to meas
- Ornithological desk study
- Lancashire fire and rescue response
- Lancashire fire and rescue
- Lcc prow comments
- Prow overlay
- Updated nhs comments
- Amended general arrangement site layout rev. l
- Wlbc tree officer comments
- Further comments - housing strategy manager
- Burscough town council
- Natural england email
- Housing strategy
- George clandon, 7 priory close burscough l40 7uy
- School planning team
- Mr chris clandon-125 trevor road ormskirk l40 7rx-objects(full)
- Danny leahy-21 delph drive burscough ormskirk l40 5bd-objects(full)
- Mrs dorothy tinsley -41 ainscough drive ormskirk l40 5sq-objects(full)
- Mr allan millington-100 new lane burscough ormskirk l40 0ry-objects(full)
- Growth lancashire
- West lancs police
- Mr stephen houghton-25 finch road burscough ormskirk l407bj-objects(full)
- Mrs marie winders-184 liverpool road south burscough ormskirk l40 7rf-objects(fu
- Mr tim kayll-95 liverpool road south burscough l40 7su-objects(full)
- Mr steve miller-7 weaver avenue burscough ormskirk l40 4le-objects(full)
- Mr tim kayll-95 liverpool road south burscough l40 7su-objects(full)
- Community & well being response
- Drainage
- Meas
- United utilities
- Katie mallen-kenya, high lane west lancashire l40 7sw-objects(full)
- Mrs julie hughes -2 the courtyard rufford park lane rufford l401xe-objects(full)
- Mr graeme mckown-39 high grove park ormskirk l40 7ab-objects(full)
- Mr mike price-98 new lane burscough ormskirk l39 4ud-objects(full)
- Miss hope christopher-5 higgins lane burscough ormskirk l40 7az-objects(full)
- Miss po thom-high lane high lane ormskirk l40-objects(full)
- Mr chris mills-111 rivington drive ormskirk l40 7rw-objects(full)
- Mrs jo reid-20 yew tree way burscough l40 7be-objects(full)
- Miss hilary benyon-55 truscott road buscough ormskirk l40 7se-objects(full)
- Miss hilary benyon-55 truscott road burscough ormskirk l40 7se-objects(full)
- Mrs stephanie mills-111 rivington drive burscough ormskirk l40 7rw-objects(full)
- Mr lukasz chojara-7 heaton close burscough l407ul-objects(full)
- Mr lukasz chojara-7 heaton close burscough l407ul-objects(full)
- Mrs corinne webster webster-66 liverpool road south ormskirk l40 7ta-objects(ful
- Miss tayla biggs-16 canal view drive burscough l40 0sx-objects(full)
- Mr william skillen-27 finch road burscough l40 7bj-objects(full)
- Mr & mrs evans 22 springfield close
- Llfa response
- Historic environment
- Economic development and regeneration
- Mr ellis johnstone-107b liverpool road south burscough lancashire l40 7sy-object
- Mrs judith hornby-24 springfield close burscough l407ug-objects(full)
- S106 proforma
- Draft heads of terms
- Contaminated land officer
- Call in request email
- Es - chapter f - ecology and biodiversity
- Es - chapter g - soils
- Es - chapter h - socio economics
- Es - chapter i - cumulative effects
- Es - chapter d - highways
- Es - chapter c - site and scheme description
- Es - chapter b - scope and methodology
- Es - chapter a - intro
- Es - chapter e - foul and surface water
- Es - volume 3 - non-technical summary
- Es - chapter i - appendices
- Es - chapter h - appendices
- Es - chapter g - appendices
- Es - chapter f - figures
- Es - chapter f - appendices
- Es - chapter e - appendices
- Es - chapter d - figures
- Es - chapter d - appendices
- Es - chapter c - appendices
- Es - chapter b - appendices
- Es - chapter a - appendices
- Es - chapter j - mitigation and monitoring
- Document and drawing schedule
- Publicity certificate/site notice
- Charlton floor and elevations
- Dawson floor and elevations
- Ferguson floor and elevations
- Apartments belford floor and elevations
- Bailey floor and elevations
- Fraser floor and elevations
- Harrison floor and elevations
- Hartford floor and elevations
- Langford floor and elevations
- Linford floor and elevations
- Masterton floor and elevations
- Middleton floor and elevations
- Robinson floor and elevations
- Spencer floor and elevations
- Wilson floor and elevations
- Parking plan
- Cil form 2
- Amended app form
- Application form - without personal data
- Affordable housing layout
- Boundary treatment plan
- The location plan
- General arrangements
- Hard surfaces layout
- Public open spaces layout
- Standard boundary treatment layout
- Garage booklet
- Topographical survey 1 of 2
- Topographical survey 2 of 2
- Landscape structure plan 1 of 2
- Landscape structure plan 2 of 2
- Elevations treatment layout
- Agricultural land classification
- Phase i geoenvironmental site assessment
- Mineral safeguarding assessment
- Noise impact assessment
- Arboricultural survey and arboricultural impact assessment
- Archaeological desk based assessment
- Air quality assessment
- Utilities assessment
- Transport assessment
- Transport assessment
- Framework travel plan
- Assessment of biodiversity netgain
- Landscape and visual impact assesment
- Viewpoint details
- Design and access statement
- Energy report
- Landscape management plan
- Cil form 1
- Draft heads of terms
- Planning obligations pro forma statement
- Covering letter
- Planning statement
- Biodiversity metric calculation tool
- Flood risk assessment
- List of drawings submitted
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Sefton for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Sefton decided full applications in a median of 77 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
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